A new American rocket will make a very high-profile debut Friday (Sept. 6) when it blasts a NASA probe toward the moon. A Minotaur V rocket will carry NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment ...

NASA is making final preparations to launch the lunar LADEE probe at 11:27 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 6, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. Image released Sept. 5, 2013. A ...

It marked the first moon shot from Virginia and the maiden voyage of the Minotaur V rocket — space firsts witnessed by thousands of spectators who watched the launch soar from NASA's Wallops Flight ...

NASA’s latest mission to the Moon launched aboard an Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket Friday night. Liftoff of the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer from the Wallops launch facility was ...

NASA is preparing to launch the first Orbital Sciences Minotaur V from Wallops Island, Virginia. Though it marks the Minotaur V's first flight, previous versions have flown a total of 13 times into ...

UPDATE for Sept. 7:NASA's LADEE moon mission has launched on its way. You can see amazing LADEE launch photos by skywatchers here. For our launch story, visit here. If you happen to live along or near ...

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— ORS-3 Enabler Mission Will be 5th Minotaur I Launch from Wallops Island, Virginia — (Dulles, VA 3 April 2012) – Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that the U.S. Air Force has ...

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On Friday, the U.S. Air Force launched a small, 310-lb. satellite from Cape Canaveral. The satellite's ride? A missile that used to carry 200 times the explosive yield of the Hiroshima bomb— but now ...